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Three Californias: The Wild Shore, The Gold Coast, and Pacific Edge by Kim Stanley Robinson, Francis Spufford is a science book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Three Californias: The Wild Shore, The Gold Coast, and Pacific Edge about?
From the internationally bestselling author of the Mars Trilogy and New York 2140 Before Kim Stanley Robinson terraformed Mars, he wrote three science fiction novels set in Orange County, California, where he grew up. These alternate futuresone a post-apocalypse, one an if-this-goes-on future reminiscent of Philip K. Dick, and one an ecological utopiaform a whole that illuminates, enchants, and inspires--collected here as Three Californias . What if... there was a limited nuclear war that left the United States blockaded, fragmented, the few survivors living in the ruins of a once-great nation? What if... this goes on, and technology continues to accelerate, and power continues to be consolidated into corporate culture, a developers dream world gone an endless sprawl of condos, freeways, and malls, and designer drugs? What if... a revolution happens, and the US addresses climate change in a responsible way. Is a future green Utopia all that great when youre young and in love? This Tor Essentials edition of Three Californias includes an introduction by Francis Spufford, bestselling author of Golden Hill and Red Plenty . [Robinson] invites us to share his characters intensely persona
Who reads Three Californias: The Wild Shore, The Gold Coast, and Pacific Edge?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Kim Stanley Robinson, Francis Spufford
- Publisher
- Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781250758958
- Category
- science
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Science Fiction, Humanities
- Rating
- 4.4 / 5 (76 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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